Spring 2022 Giveaway #3
Welcome to the third of our spring giveaways for 2022!
Treat yourself to these fab reads in our spring giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 19 September 2022. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Jackie Huggins & Ngaire Jarro Jack of Hearts QX11594
In recounting the life of serviceman Jack Huggins, Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro reveal the contribution of Indigenous soldiers in World War II. ‘One could never imagine what our father went through in the war,’ says Jackie Huggins. ‘His people were not citizens of their own country at the time … Fifty Indigenous men were sent to the Thai-Burma railway. It is important to tell the history of those brave men and women …’
Courtesy of Magabala Books
Winnie Dunn (ed.) Another Australia
Edited by Winnie Dunn, general manager of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement, this anthology features fiction, non-fiction and poetry from 12 Indigenous writers and writers of colour who reveal another Australia behind, beneath and beside the country we think we know. Contributors include Amani Haydar, Osman Faruqi, Sisonke Msimang, Shankari Chandran, Declan Fry, Omar Musa, Shirley Le, Sara Saleh and Nardi Simpson.
Courtesy of Affirm Press
Robert Drewe Nimblefoot
At the age of ten, Ballarat boy Johnny Day beat adult competition to become the world champion in pedestrianism, the sporting craze of the day. A few years later, in 1870, he won the Melbourne Cup on a horse called Nimblefoot. Then he disappeared. Robert Drewe’s new novel picks up where history leaves off, reimagining Johnny’s life following his great Cup win and spinning a tale that is both an adventure and a coming of age story.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Anna Qu Made in China: A memoir of love and labour
As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and punished for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their lot in this new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts child services, an action that has consequences for the rest of her life.
Courtesy of Scribe Publications
Don’t forget, to go in the draw to win all four books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 19 September 2022.
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